Affected games: Darktide, Helldivers, or really any sufficiently large game, it doesn’t seem to happen with small games.
In short, I constantly need to run file verification on games that I keep installed, and it always finds around 2-10 files that need to be re-downloaded. This generally happens between Steam restarts and game updates, but has happened after simply waiting some time between launches (a few hours) without restarting Steam or receiving an update.
I run the game from an ext4 formatted separate drive and secondary Steam Library (Samsung SSD). I checked the SMART tests and they show no sign of any errors. Steam itself is the one from the SUSE repo, not the flatpak version, and I’m using GE-Proton to run the game.
All sources I’ve been able to find on this issue say to download the repo version of Steam (I already have it), and checking the drive for any failures (there’s none that I can find, though I’ll attach the SMART log of the drive involved; just note that the CRC errors are from when I first installed it with a bad cable, they’re not recent, and the cable is good).
The games work just fine if I run them right after a verification, but it’s getting tiring having to do so all the time.
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.18.2-1-default] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: Samsung SSD 870 EVO 4TB
Serial Number: S758NX0X300066N
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 f44303fee
Firmware Version: SVT03B6Q
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is: In smartctl database 7.5/5894
ATA Version is: ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Dec 29 12:50:21 2025 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 320) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 11990
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 177
177 Wear_Leveling_Count 0x0013 099 099 000 Pre-fail Always - 7
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032 077 055 000 Old_age Always - 23
195 ECC_Error_Rate 0x001a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
199 CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 3643
235 POR_Recovery_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 49
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 19283288249
252 Added_Bad_Flash_Blk_Ct 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 47
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11980 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11956 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11936 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11912 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11888 -
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11882 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11877 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11854 -
# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11830 -
#10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11806 -
#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11782 -
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11758 -
#13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11734 -
#14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11710 -
#15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11686 -
#16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11662 -
#17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11638 -
#18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11614 -
#19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11590 -
#20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11566 -
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11542 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
256 0 65535 Read_scanning was never started
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x' for more